Why does Lt.Gen Strock wear a work uniform when addressing public in DC?

When I served, the standing order of the day specified the uniform to wear. If we had a special occasion, such as departing or entering port, or on other occasions when we had interface with the public, we had to wear dress blues.

Question: Is it appropriate for Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, US Army Corps of Engineers commanding officer, to wear kackies at a pentagon briefing carried live on CSPAN?



Could it be that this is a part of the bushco "show", that the active, on-duty military is not (yet) involved in domestic business?

I know he has a dress uniform somewhere, maybe he has lost it?



If you feel as I do that he should wear his dress uniform when addressing the pentagon press corps and the American public, contact his office:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Headquarters
441 G. Street, NW
Washington, DC 20314

202-761-0001

Executive Office U.S. Army Corps of Engineershttp://www.hq.usace.army.mil/hq_exec/

rather than spend time changing his uniform. Is this even mildly important?

that states he must wear a dress uniform when addressing the press.

that you have to wear a particular class of uniform in DC.. no utilities unless on a work detail.

I'd have to see the rule to determine if it even applies to him.

But it's hard to think of anything less important than this.

preach while wearing a sweat suit. :shrug:

that would be weird. And you found an instance less important than this one. Would you urge strangers to write to your pastor's boss and complain?

However in the case of this general I would wonder a bit at speaking in utilities in DC. But I already mentioned why. Perhaps someone will have a resource that explains DC dress code.

There is a published uniform of the day. As a former servicemember I find it hard to believe that Kammies are the uniform of the day in the Pentagon. If they are, that is a denigration of pride and professonalism. If they are not, then the General is out of uniform. You break a rule here and you break a rule then all of a sudden you got something real important. Don't mean to sound preachy but as a retired Chief Petty Officer ya can't let standards slip. That's what gets your Sailors killed.

because of this? Garsh.

If you accept slippage of standards and promote an environment where standards aren't important then the ultimate loss will eventually be life. That is military speak but standards must be maintained and adhered to from the proper wearing of uniforms to the proper maintenance of hardware (ships, guns, planes, tanks) to the proper accounting of personnel. I think it is proper to point out uniform discrepancies; that is a sign of standards maintenance. Having said that maybe the General is in the uniform of the day, but as an old Salt I think it sucks that a military leader would wear a work uniform to a press conference.

nobody has yet shown me a regulation the he's broken, so I'm gonna do my best not to get too exercised over this.

BDUs, as I've stated a few other times in this thread, are OFTEN the UOD inside the Beltway these days.

I'm sure I've seen plenty of non-dress uniforms on military people at Pentagon briefings, despite the imminent danger to our troops.

right now. UOD for the Air Staff is BDUs and flight suits. No blues allowed.

None at all.

Wife is a senior officer at the Pentagon.

the Battle dress at all times. Even the nurses corpsmen in hospitals do. It shows that you and the troops in the field are on the same playing field. Of all the things the Bush crooks are doing this seems like a really strange thing to obsess over.

I recall my dad, who is ex-Navy, telling me.)

It seems a bit counter-protocol to wear work fatigues while on camera, or in Washington at all. Maybe he thinks he's actually the head of SG1 and he's about to go on a mission to Abydos?

CHEVRON SIX LOCKED.
CHEVRON SEVEN STUCK.
JIGGLING CHEVRON SEVEN.
THERE WE GO.
CHEVRON SEVEN LOCKED.

I am such a hideous nerd.

sure that was what my dad told me when I asked him why people on JAG never wore utilities to work.

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http://www.mdw.army.mil/



Headquarters, U.S. Army Military District of Washington
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Fort Lesley J. McNair, D.C. 20319-5058

MDWweb@fmmc.army.mil

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Maj. Gen. Guy C. Swan III, commanding general of U.S. Army Military District of Washington, is also the commander of Joint Forces Headquarters-National Capital Region.

UOD for the Air Staff, for example, is BDUs and flight suits. The new CSAF set that policy. Also, before that, most of the services wore utility uniforms on the last Friday of the month, or every Friday, or the last duty day of the month, etc. Bottom line, they've been doing it for years now.

I've seen some military officers recently address congress wearing that uniform and I've always thought that was weird. Is that the same thing you're talking about?

I've just edited the original post, adding a General Strock in camo uniform at the pentagon.

If you have images of others addressing Congress, let's post.

It could have been Strock for all I know. I just remember flipping through on C-SPAN and finding it really quite weird.

especially on uniform wear

Everyone in uniform should set an example for all service members junior to them. Pride and professionalism on duty and off duty and the proper wearing of the uniform is a must. A leader cannot say do as I say not as I do.

Are you saying that he or the powers that be have decided that he should dress as in Combat domestically in order to subliminally prepare us for the concept of Military working domestically? Is it just that it is not consistent with a formal respectful attitude?

"Men in action", you know what I mean. Thouse tuff guys from the movies. The Bushistas are militarizing every day life as best they can. Get used to these uniforms, is the message, soon you'll have them patrolling in every street. And forget, forget that it was ever any different.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

I want to see them all wearing their shinging stars and crisp formal uniforms when addressing the public.

I do not want them to start fostering a "cozy" relationship by wearing their work uniforms in public.

The enlisted scum do the work, the officers are there to screw it up and blame the workers for it being screwed up.

*See Abu-Ghraib for evidence of how it works.